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  In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Scott Atran

  

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  Short Description for In Gods We TrustThis ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements th...
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Published: 01 March 2005
  • Format: Paperback 364 pages
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  • Categories: Religion | Philosophy Of Religion
  • ISBN 13: 9780195178036 ISBN 10: 0195178033
  • Sales rank: 156,611

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Full description for In Gods We Trust

• This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.